Polarity

LYRICS:

Polarity: Part I

The Locket

Surrender you affections
Lay them at my feet
Once you’re free, you will see
All will be complete

Extraordinary creature
Stranger than you look
A fiction trapped inside an open book

A necessary evil
We shook hands on the rules
But I can’t be accessory
To the tyranny of fools

I offer you a locket
To bury all your pain
You’ll never seek to see the sun again

Everyone agrees: lie with dogs wake up with fleas
The poison feels like the remedy
There’s nothing here for free
You’re lost in my memory
Rest assured, you’re in good company

Not one for introspection
I am simply born to burn
The curious rewarded- you are never to return
I’ve got a whole collection
Lightning in a jar
Your soul is safely sealed in my boudoir

Everyone agrees: lie with dogs wake up with fleas
The poison feels like the remedy (I can make you live forever)
There’s nothing here for free
You’re lost in my memory
Rest assured…
You’re immortal, I remember every time
I can make you live forever
You’re immortal, I remember
Every time you made me tremble
Every time

©Mia d’Bruzzi 2022

The Marshmallow Test

A promise is a promise until it becomes a murder
At the mercy of a man in a suit
To have faith in what was promised you’ll take what you are given
And wait for the reward due to you
Eyes closed and mouth wide open
Transparent to sky
Assuming they are honest and trying not to cry
Trusting in the promise
Trusting in the promise

I’m riding spirals of chaos
Three-headed hunger cuts both ways

I flunked, I flunked, I flunked
I flunked the marshmallow test

It’s a seething circus in here
A carnival-noir full of tears
It’s a seething circus and I don’t know how to play it
With my three-headed hunger I just don’t know how to say it
‘Cause if wraps around my throat
Can I choke any louder?
If my heart is a keg, then your promise is the powder

I’m riding spirals of chaos
Three-headed hunger cuts both ways
You’ve got inside my brain now
I’ll never find my way out

©Mia d’Bruzzi 2022

The Brightest and the Best

Nothing is OK
But everything looks fine
Beneath the upper crust
Run the calculated lines
The brightest and the best
The whitest of the smiles
It takes a secret handshake
To perpetuate the lies

I cannot hold the pose
I cannot hold the pose
I cannot hold the pose

And the hired help stand by on hand
To execute your plan to rule the land
‘Cause everybody knows that you know best
An accident of birth, inherited success

I cannot hold the pose
A nightmare perfect face
If you don’t perform
You will be replaced

And the sprinklers shoot diamonds
From the landscaped erections
The Round-up on the playground
I cannot hold the pose

Inside all you want to do is cry
But everything looks fine to passers-by
Everything you are you have to hide
Everything you hide has always been denied

So many secrets in the ivory tower
(I walk the halls)
Examinations of the darkest hour
(I climb the walls)
Experiments completely classified
(I hold my breath)
No one will ever know who lived or died
(I wait for death)

©Mia d’Bruzzi 2022

Polarity: Part II

Burn clean
Pristine
Clarity- come comfort me

Take aim
With a blue flame
Lead me through the dark

And you know me so completely
Gravity- come comfort me

Clarity is not a bloodless art, you see
The tribute that you pay is meat
The system will not hold

The spinning and the sinking ground
The echoed sounds of falling down
The bargaining of sailors
As they drown

Take aim
Again
Polarity
You’ve come for me
Take my breath away
Take my heart away
Away

©Mia d’Bruzzi 2022